Following the example of the Managers of several other 

 large Museums, your Committee have caused to be fitted 

 up a Students' Geological Collection, consisting of series of 

 characteristic Fossils, Rocks and Minerals, comprising in all 

 about iooo named and numbered specimens. For this purpose 

 a large cabinet has been utilised, and placed in what is now 

 the Students' Room, on the ground floor. The specimens 

 thus brought together were obtained from various sources, 

 viz.: — from our own Museum duplicates, as gifts from the 

 British Museum, Owens College Museum, Manchester, the 

 Woodwardian Museum of Cambridge University, and the 

 Curator; and also where necessary by purchase. The 

 collection thus formed has been found to be exceedingly 

 valuable to Students preparing for examination in Geology, 

 as they are able to closely study the specimens without 

 interfering with any of the arrangements of the Museum, 

 while any risk of damage to the contents of the large cases is 

 avoided. The use of this Cabinet is freely granted under certain 

 regulations and under the personal supervision of the Curator, 

 who has prepared a detailed Catalogue of the Collection for 

 the use of Students. Printed copies of this are obtainable 

 at the Museum at a small charge. 



In the Students' Room is also placed the handsome cabinet 

 containing an extensive Herbarium of European Plants and 

 many volumes relating to the collection, which were presented 

 by Mrs. W. Glennie Smith, as mentioned in the list of 

 presentations at the end of this Report. 



Your Committee have no mechanical means of testing the 

 attendance of the public, but from data in his possession, the 

 Curator estimates that the total attendance during the two 

 years covered by this Report is about 160,000. 



On public holidays the attendance is frequently as large as 



